Monday evening I attended the launch party for a fantastic new website called The Bean Walker. The site is an Iowa news aggregate – a one stop shop for Iowa news and politics that includes links to news sources, blogs, and leading articles. The design is similar to sites such as The Dead Pelican in Louisiana and The Drudge Report – a national right leaning news aggregate.
The site’s creator, Tim Albrecht, has done an excellent job promoting the site on TV news and radio. The name of site came from the summer job of many rural Iowan kids – bean walking – the dreaded, but well paid, task of walking through the bean fields to pull weeds and volunteer corn stalks. While bean walking is a thing of the past, The Bean Walker represents the growth of the present conservative movement.
The launch party was a huge success, with many prominent elected officials in attendance. If the party was any indicator, this website will be a huge success as well and a daily must read.
The site promises something for all Iowans, because in Iowa we’re all bean walkers!
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